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- Balanced Scorecard for performance measurement of social media Companies have different approaches to use social media tools: for management, advertising, public relations, research and development, customer service or for recruiting. However, companies are faced with problems when measuring their online activities. A simple analysis of the number of fans or followers is often not enough because there is no correlation to company relevant ...
- Data sharing: Why it’s useful, why still nobody does it and where it could lead to According to a study from Tenopir et al. (2011) among 1300 US scientist, 67 per cent of all respondents considered the missing access to research data as a major drawback for scientific progress. In the same study, only 36 per cent of the interviewed scientists said, they would openly share their research data with others. ...
- MOOC Voting “How to build a startup” It’s been about 18 months since a new learning format has inspired academic communities around the world: the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). After years of only mildly successful e-learning projects, this is perhaps a first major step in using innovative digital technologies to fundamentally change higher education for the better. Unlike the present day ...
- Impressions from the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (#icis2013) by Kaja Scheliga The growing field of internet science The internet is not only being increasingly used by a broader mass of people but it is also increasingly being studied. There is a growing number of research institutions dedicated to studying the internet. The field of internet science is getting denser. For instance there is the International ...